a level maths starting tips

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Hi, I hope you are well.

can any students that have done or do A level maths give me tips and advice about what do you do to prepare for exams and where do you revise from and which methods do you use to revise?

thanks

Reply 1

jake102:)

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Original post by Harman Kaur

Hi, I hope you are well.
can any students that have done or do A level maths give me tips and advice about what do you do to prepare for exams and where do you revise from and which methods do you use to revise?
thanks

tbh the textbook is all you need. use youtube it is a lifesaver. zeeshan zammurred and TL maths are the goats. just do as many past papers as you can. but since your starting the course soon, i wouldnt worry too much since the first couple months are just gcse content/very easy. but during those months if u can do a tiny bit ahead of the class in the long run u will do so much better

Reply 2

oceanb1ue

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hey, i've just finished maths in y12, did a full a level paper for mocks and got A* predicted so hopefully i can be of some help! but basically i would just recommend lots and lots of practice questions, that's quite obvious but realistically that's the only way - every time you learn a topic do as much practice as you can get, eg. use mathsgenie questions, or physics and maths tutor exam questions, madas maths is also super helpful as there are LOADS of questions on there, and the A level maths revision website is absolutely amazing (https://alevelmathsrevision.com/). i always did physics and maths tutor and A level maths revision website questions and that really enhanced my abilities, madas maths has lots so I would pick out the best questions and use those.
before my mock exam, seems obvious but i just did as many past papers as possible because schools tend to use papers from real A levels (eg. my school used 2023 papers for my 2024 mocks because we couldn't access these yet). but point is, if you do lots of past papers, you get a feel for the format, and each paper from year to year isn't massively different. honestly if you do all the past papers you will be very well prepped.
for mechanics in particular i used this textbook https://www.amazon.co.uk/Edexcel-Mathematics-Statistics-Mechanics-Textbook-ebook/dp/B07LH5JV4Y and just did lots of questions from this which helped a lot.
for statistics the questions get quite repetitive like there's only so many questions that can be asked, so if you do textbook questions (from the same textbook as for mechanics, those are good) and other practice questions which I said, you should be fine
tbh don't stress too much, maths is fine as long as you put in the effort you'll be great! good luck

Reply 3

Harman Kaur

OP

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Original post by oceanb1ue

hey, i've just finished maths in y12, did a full a level paper for mocks and got A* predicted so hopefully i can be of some help! but basically i would just recommend lots and lots of practice questions, that's quite obvious but realistically that's the only way - every time you learn a topic do as much practice as you can get, eg. use mathsgenie questions, or physics and maths tutor exam questions, madas maths is also super helpful as there are LOADS of questions on there, and the A level maths revision website is absolutely amazing (https://alevelmathsrevision.com/). i always did physics and maths tutor and A level maths revision website questions and that really enhanced my abilities, madas maths has lots so I would pick out the best questions and use those.
before my mock exam, seems obvious but i just did as many past papers as possible because schools tend to use papers from real A levels (eg. my school used 2023 papers for my 2024 mocks because we couldn't access these yet). but point is, if you do lots of past papers, you get a feel for the format, and each paper from year to year isn't massively different. honestly if you do all the past papers you will be very well prepped.
for mechanics in particular i used this textbook https://www.amazon.co.uk/Edexcel-Mathematics-Statistics-Mechanics-Textbook-ebook/dp/B07LH5JV4Y and just did lots of questions from this which helped a lot.
for statistics the questions get quite repetitive like there's only so many questions that can be asked, so if you do textbook questions (from the same textbook as for mechanics, those are good) and other practice questions which I said, you should be fine
tbh don't stress too much, maths is fine as long as you put in the effort you'll be great! good luck

ok thanks for your help. I was worried because people say maths A level is hard so I was thinking it will be hard for me to get good grade. even if it hard I want to do it because I enjoy it but I also want to get A star or A. the link you attached for revision guide it says year 2 so do I need to buy both year 1 and year 2?

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Reply 4

Harman Kaur

OP

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Original post by jake102:)

dw its acc not that hard once u do a bunch of past papers cuz the questions type are the exact same but with different numbers. and yes u need to buy both but i got pdfs of both if u want them ?

ok thank you much. yes I would like to have the pdfs for both years so can you please send me, it would be really helpful.

Reply 5

Muttley79

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Original post by oceanb1ue

hey, i've just finished maths in y12, did a full a level paper for mocks and got A* predicted so hopefully i can be of some help! but basically i would just recommend lots and lots of practice questions, that's quite obvious but realistically that's the only way - every time you learn a topic do as much practice as you can get, eg. use mathsgenie questions, or physics and maths tutor exam questions, madas maths is also super helpful as there are LOADS of questions on there, and the A level maths revision website is absolutely amazing (https://alevelmathsrevision.com/). i always did physics and maths tutor and A level maths revision website questions and that really enhanced my abilities, madas maths has lots so I would pick out the best questions and use those.
before my mock exam, seems obvious but i just did as many past papers as possible because schools tend to use papers from real A levels (eg. my school used 2023 papers for my 2024 mocks because we couldn't access these yet). but point is, if you do lots of past papers, you get a feel for the format, and each paper from year to year isn't massively different. honestly if you do all the past papers you will be very well prepped.
for mechanics in particular i used this textbook https://www.amazon.co.uk/Edexcel-Mathematics-Statistics-Mechanics-Textbook-ebook/dp/B07LH5JV4Y and just did lots of questions from this which helped a lot.
for statistics the questions get quite repetitive like there's only so many questions that can be asked, so if you do textbook questions (from the same textbook as for mechanics, those are good) and other practice questions which I said, you should be fine
tbh don't stress too much, maths is fine as long as you put in the effort you'll be great! good luck

Madas maths is out of date now best avoided.

Reply 6

Muttley79

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Original post by Harman Kaur

ok thanks for your help. I was worried because people say maths A level is hard so I was thinking it will be hard for me to get good grade. even if it hard I want to do it because I enjoy it but I also want to get A star or A. the link you attached for revision guide it says year 2 so do I need to buy both year 1 and year 2?

Have you been set summer prep work?

Which board?

Do not use Madas - it's now out-of-fdate.

Reply 7

Muttley79

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Original post by jake102:)

dw its acc not that hard once u do a bunch of past papers cuz the questions type are the exact same but with different numbers. and yes u need to buy both but i got pdfs of both if u want them ?